ghar dhund bhai

in India, moving to an alien city for work could be daunting. moreover finding decent apartments/flats available for rent is difficult & needs you to go through the classic "flats and flatmates" groups on fb.

i am lazy to do that manually & i was bored enough to automate this :)

usage

1. setup an airtable base and table. (for now create fields uid, url)
2. create the .env file referring to env.example provided
3. update the GROUP_ID variable in main.py. you can get the group id of the desired group from the url.
4. update the N_POSTS_TO_FETCH variable in fb.py to control how many posts to fetch in a single run. (default = 10)
5. finally run: $ python main.py

todo

currently this repo is very raw & unorganized. i have planned a few features which i might implement if i could.

(my planned use case: cron scrapes various groups & populates my airtable with description, url, photos. could filter these records as per my location/preferences/etc. requirements)

[ ] integrate scrapePostDescription to automate updation of description values in airtable [ ] download images & upload to airtable as attachments (helps me just go through the airtable sheet on my phone itself)

feel free to suggest & send pr's